This morning I opened my MacBook and was greeted by a chart from Jan. 28, 1998. I have a program that searches aspects; you have to zoom back to before the aspect happens, then you set the controls and you travel in time to a particular destination. This particular date was my dad’s 57th birthday but that’s not why I had the chart up: it’s the day that Neptune took up residence in Aquarius. I was looking at this chart as a potential messenger of how the Internet became the all-supreme thing that it is. The Sun is exactly conjunct Uranus in Aquarius that day; the Moon is in Aquarius and Jupiter is, as well: in fact, it’s exactly conjunct my Saturn.
Now that I mention it, it’s a chart for right before I left the Hudson Valley and jumped to Europe the first time around, where I started Planet Waves: pretty much the perfect image of Jupiter conjunct my 9th house Saturn.
Astrology is an amazing tool for understanding the past: this thing that seems to stalk us. It’s a technique for looking at what we now call ‘issues’, providing a map back through the moments of change, complication, injury and breakthrough. I’ve developed my own techniques for doing this. I’m going to give them a name — soundings. This is an architectural term for looking inside the odd places in a building to see what’s going on.
One way to look at the passage of time is as a structure that we build. In this model, time does not ‘go by’ — rather, it accumulates. I don’t think we like this fact. We cannot really put a wrecking ball to history. There are rare instances where it’s actually possible to move on, but usually something is necessary — be it understanding, resolution, healing. One thing we can do with astrology is go back and do some of the residual work of the past: raise awareness, see and maybe understand the influences, and work on several levels of influence at once.
As for the present: that perfect building block of the past. The Sun will be in Aries one more week. Venus is slowing to a stop in the last degree of Pisces; so one thing that’s different now from most of the year is that Venus is not in Aries, she’s in Pisces. This is one of those aspects that in my view gets the good-for-everyone rating. This last degree involves the theme of visualization. We can create what we can see. We can create ourselves into what we can see ourselves being.
If you are visualizing a woman, either the one you want to be or the one you want to be with, now would be an excellent time.
There is also the self-esteem theme of Venus retrograde, formerly in Aries: I would love to hear from you about this but personally I can say it’s been a profound time for understanding and dismantling my own self-esteem related baggage and (in that odd way that spiritual growth always feels new) I feel like I’m on a whole new level of the game. My various self-esteem dramas are melting into confidence. Venus will station direct, still in Pisces, later this week.
Speaking of: Mars is now about one degree from Uranus in Pisces. This is a big one: for making bold statements, entirely new creative activities, for asserting one’s individuality, and for putting out an emotionally grounded but no less passionate male or yang energy.
As I finish this blog, Frank Sinatra is crooning away here at Dominick’s: You’re nobody till somebody loves you / You’re nobody till somebody cares.
Watch that one. It cannot be true. It’s the trap. You’re nobody till you care.
Well well…
[…]personally I can say it’s been a profound time for understanding and dismantling my own self-esteem related baggage and (in that odd way that spiritual growth always feels new) I feel like I’m on a whole new level of the game.
[…]Speaking of: Mars is now about one degree from Uranus in Pisces. This is a big one: for making bold statements, entirely new creative activities, for asserting one’s individuality, and for putting out an emotionally grounded but no less passionate male or yang energy.
Reading this is just all too appropriate as I step into the next phase of my life. After a rough start to 2009, I have felt this kind of and sustained, fearful energy both inside and around me, and then relationship snags and self-doubt by the truckload. An overarching loss of direction and connectedness with myself.
Yet I am learning more and more through awareness–both inward and outward–and have managed to bridge this confusing time. I truly feel like there is a new energy on the horizon that is finally making all these transits feel….welcome.
Eric, your cue to hone in one visualization practice could not have been more timely.
And the “You’re nobody till you care” bit? I cannot say how many times your words have struck a chord in my psyche and have encouraged me to go farther and trust in the universe, in myself.
Thank you and Happy Spring to all.
L.
Eric says – There is also the self-esteem theme of Venus retrograde, formerly in Aries: I would love to hear from you about this but personally I can say it’s been a profound time for understanding and dismantling my own self-esteem related baggage and (in that odd way that spiritual growth always feels new) I feel like I’m on a whole new level of the game. My various self-esteem dramas are melting into confidence.
Well said Eric. As ever. I think I posted a week or two back that I had noticed a change in your writing voice. And it has continued. There is a strength of purpose behind what you are doing, more so than I have ever experienced with your work – as I have come to know it. I’ve been reading your work since you posted in for Jonathan Cainer a few years back and have never regretted it. In fact, I barely visit JC now (sorry JC). It may not be for me to say, we’ve not met, and I don’t know you as we have not met in person (though in a strange way we have met personally – in both the way that you write and in the ‘what’ you write) but it is great to see the positive changes flowing through your work as a result of the flow through you. I am benefitting greatly, new thinking, new ideas, challenging stuff some days, new reading, new books and so on.
I am not really bought into this astrology malarkey if I am honest – but I am curious about it and I think open to it, so I love to investigate and research. But it is the writing, integrity, warmth and humanity on this site, by you and those that post, that really keeps me coming back. Even when you’re trying to drum up business, it isn’t offensive, in the way that some folks have become over the years…
Yours aye, Hazel.
The “net” truly is a Freudian slip then……as with popular culture….from Frank to Freddie……..how many millions have got caught up in it?
We are neither …nobodies….or champions of the world……but is it not truly Karmic that the human race thus far has leapt over into the ethernet…like the proverbial lemmings.
From Tara01
“Personally, I am visualizing my heart out. As far as my own self esteem issues, it seems that the more I expand outwardly and surrender to the experience, I inwardly feel stronger.”
An excellent and inspiring response Tara……….and one that should be given out with a Pluto manual…..that has a help menu for initiates of change.
Soundings is a great metaphor……..Venus retro over the Aries point …square Pluto has me full of beans……..and humble aplomb as Mars/ Uranus hit my Natal Jupiter …… “melting into confidence”……. and simply aware of what needs a little more attention as Venus makes a second pass through Aries. Not so much “born again”….as “dawn again”
All Art aspires to the condition of Music……
All Life aspires to the condition of Fire…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BFT0uuENE4
We have a rather consciousness raising week in Liverpool…..
April 15th 15.06 Sheffield UK 1989….20 years on……
Your prayers would be very much appreciated…..
PH
I looked up the numerology for this day which is 19/10/1. It represents a moment of surrender to a higher force, our deeper wisdom, in order to trust in the process of our own unique path. We have an opportunity for new beginnings through the resolute courage of confronting our individual uniqueness and moving it onto a higher plane of brotherly love. BEAUTIFULL!!!!!!!!! There is also an opportunity to wind up old accounts and start anew.
Personally, I am visualizing my heart out. As far as my own self esteem issues, it seems that the more I expand outwardly and surrender to the experience, I inwardly feel stronger.
6 months ago….I would have articulated the current back space of Venus crossing the Aries point retrograde into Pisces……………… after months of feeling truly loved up……. as a time of alienation from all that I was getting to work with…albeit temporarily….!!
Venus is now close enough…..however…… to an opposition to Natal Saturn 28.17 Virgo…. to offer up a completely different perspective.
The self-esteem issues are crucial here. I await the conjunction of transiting Mars to Uranus at 24.22 Pisces with humble aplomb. My natal Jupiter is nestling close by at 24.30 Pisces. This has spent most of its natural life in discussion with aforementioned Saturn. The Natal opposition was tricky until I tracked the growth as a…… 2 step forward… 1 step back Tango….or 1 step forward… 3 steps back Quick Step…!!
The current triple conjunction in Pisces is like having Jimi Hendrix…..Miles Davies….and Tina Turner invite me to join their band….but just checking that I do know Al Green’s “Take Me to the River..”
After many years of having Saturn call me to order…. and punish me for tuning into Jupiter and going …”Hey now…..I dig this……” ……the self esteem issue is cool…..!
Cogito Ergo Sum….Venus retro in very late Pisces…. to an Aries Sun/ Mars/ Mercury….. is rather like being shown all of the bits that I truly love…..and care about….that are not quite working or ready to flow…..upon closer inspection……..so that I can do a bit more work on them as Venus returns for the 3rd. pass …….!!
The improved self esteem issues have given me the camera….I look out at the soundings….. rather than the soundings oppressing my ego shell….and my sensory perception…!!
I love the idea of time accumulating….one of the ground rules of Neuro-Linguistic Programming….(NLP)…..is to try and remember a moment before a tragic event occurred….when happiness was the mood…..!!
If you can accumulate enough of these…..then “melting away” is exactly right….!!
So the “net” really is a Freudian Slip…….as is the emotive conditioning of popular music….. from Frank……to Freddie Mercury!! We are all ….neither nobodies….or champions of the world…!!
This …I guess …is why I spend whole acres of accumulated time listening to lyricless Jazz Saxaphone.
But that experience…then allows me to place lyrics alongside the music …and maintain the aesthetic…..
April 15th is a particularly difficult day for the people of Liverpool…..
It is the 20th anniversary of one of our darkest days in recent times….!!
At 15.06 GMT + 1 on Wednesday…their will be a Service of Remembrance at Liverpool Football Club…. http://www.musicman1.net has the details……
Sometimes…one can only feel the silence…….
Until next week….!!
Al Green….genius at work …”Take me to the River…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tgm7v284JI
PH
re giant leaps forward in self-esteem: oh. hell. yes. thank the god/dess of your choice. Suddenly one day I remembered to put myself in the equation, and it seems to be sticking. seems to be having the strangest side effect: horny (course that could also just be spring). Either way, yay for instant rewards!
as to sinatra: doesn’t say ‘somebody else’ – *I* could be that somebody! really only works if I am, actually…